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I regret standing silently while I listened to empty promises — and I especially regret that this whole ordeal has scarred the anti-censorship landscape so badly that it may be years before anything grows there again.

Austin Heap was chosen as this year's winner as a result of his vision and unique approach to tackling a huge problem. It was his inventiveness and bravery which the judges sought to reward, rather than the Haystack software itself. Earlier this week the Guardian sent a list of questions about Haystack and its security to Heap; he said he would respond but missed his own deadline to do so, and had not responded despite a reminder as this article was written.

At the time of writing, Heap has not updated his Twitter feed since Tuesday. Earlier this week he told the BBC that "all functional copies of the software had now been withdrawn" and that "it is absolutely reasonable for people to raise these concerns". He said the CRC would get a third party to review the Haystack source code, would make the code available for anyone to examine, and would stop people from testing it in the field.

On his blog, he asks people to stop using the software until a security review can be carried out — although it is hard to see how that would differ from Appelbaum's review. The last thing I want is blood on our hands. Claims made by Heap in March that roughly 5, people were using the service in Iran have not been backed up by evidence; a report in the Financial Times suggests that only a few dozen Iranians were using it.

Morozov, writing at the online magazine Slate, says: "I don't think that Heap's deceptive advertising and the media's poor watchdogging are the main culprits here. What made Haystack possible was the US government's urge to embrace the power of the internet to democratize the world —and to do so as fast as possible, without first designing appropriate procedures and regulations to guide its digital operations. Considering that thousands of users depend on the legitimate Simurgh software, it's likely that a lot more people have been impacted by this malware than by Flame -- a recently discovered cyberespionage threat that has received a lot of attention in the media -- Wisniewski said.

The Green Simurgh developers have posted a warning on their website, urging users to only download the proxy software from the official download page and to verify the MD5 checksums of the package before running it. They also advised users who believe that they might have been infected with this malware to run an up-to-date antivirus scanner in order remove it from their computers.

Lucian Constantin is a senior writer at CSO, covering information security, privacy, and data protection. Here are the latest Insider stories.

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Gmail explained this policy here. You can get around the problem by changing the file extension from. For example, you can rename fgp. The recipient needs to rename it back to. Last time when we tested it, Gmail delivered the file successfully. Download Certified Similar to In an interview Tuesday, Heap said that after listening to the concerns of several security researchers, he has decided to open-source the majority of Haystack's code and submit the software to a third-party security audit.

Jake Appelbaum , a well-known hacker involved with WikiLeaks and the online privacy-enhancing Tor software project, said he reviewed Haystack's software along with colleagues and was furious to find that the program, which promised security and anonymity while surfing the Internet, could actually have the opposite effect and make users more vulnerable.

Anybody could have done this. Appelbaum said the copy of Haystack he reviewed didn't accurately warn testers of the security risks of the program's diagnostic version.

However, Heap said fewer than 50 activists and testers in Iran actually used the program and were informed of the risks in writing. Many anti-censorship tools don't warn about the risks, he said, but people trying to curtail censorship usually understand they are breaking the law. Heap has received plenty of media attention in the last year over the development of Haystack, a program that was often touted as an illustration of technology's potential as a tool to fight injustice and expand Internet freedom.